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    oknow @SpaceKhomeini
    last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 20:20

    @SpaceKhomeini Ah, cool.

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      Jennkryst @SpaceKhomeini
      last edited by Jennkryst 17 Jan 2023, 20:25

      @SpaceKhomeini I really WANT to use Ares, on account of a few features and the minimal amount of work I would have to out in, since a bunch of what I want already exists.

      But.

      I also want too many things that I’ve been told ‘just do Evennia instead’, so shrug.

      Maybe I’ll Ares after I have some Evennia stuff worked out, and then transfer stuff over from Ares to Evennia after its more complete? That won’t drive off half the players, surely.

      Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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        SpaceKhomeini @Jennkryst
        last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 20:32

        @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

        @SpaceKhomeini I really WANT to use Ares, on account of a few features and the minimal amount of work I would have to out in, since a bunch of what I want already exists.

        But.

        I also want too many things that I’ve been told ‘just do Evennia instead’, so shrug.

        Maybe I’ll Ares after I have some Evennia stuff worked out, and then transfer stuff over from Ares to Evennia after its more complete? That won’t drive off half the players, surely.

        I’ll be honest, at this point I rely on the portal so much I don’t even want to play a non-Ares game, but that’s just me.

        I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
        I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
        I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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          Roz @Jennkryst
          last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 20:33

          @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

          Maybe I’ll Ares after I have some Evennia stuff worked out, and then transfer stuff over from Ares to Evennia after its more complete? That won’t drive off half the players, surely.

          That sounds like trying to code everything twice in two different languages and two different structures.

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            shit-piss-love @Jennkryst
            last edited by shit-piss-love 17 Jan 2023, 20:33

            @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

            I also want too many things that I’ve been told ‘just do Evennia instead’, so shrug.

            Speaking as a professional software engineer who has done a lot of Evennia programming and a little bit of Ares, Ares is a few orders of magnitude less work to get to a playable state.

            Evennia is a vastly more complicated beast and what you get out of the gate is going to fall well short of first-order features in Ares.

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              Jennkryst
              last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 20:52

              @SpaceKhomeini said in Prospective Star Wars:

              I’ll be honest, at this point I rely on the portal so much I don’t even want to play a non-Ares game, but that’s just me.

              The portal and scene async is like. Like… 90% of the reason I want to break Ares apart and figure out how to make it do the rest of what I want, yup.

              @Roz said in Prospective Star Wars:

              @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

              Maybe I’ll Ares after I have some Evennia stuff worked out, and then transfer stuff over from Ares to Evennia after its more complete? That won’t drive off half the players, surely.

              That sounds like trying to code everything twice in two different languages and two different structures.

              I don’t mean code a program to do it. I mean look at Ares Sheet 1, manually enter it into Evennia Sheet 1.

              @shit-piss-love said in Prospective Star Wars:

              @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

              I also want too many things that I’ve been told ‘just do Evennia instead’, so shrug.

              Speaking as a professional software engineer who has done a lot of Evennia programming and a little bit of Ares, Ares is a few orders of magnitude less work to get to a playable state.

              Evennia is a vastly more complicated beast and what you get out of the gate is going to fall well short of first-order features in Ares.

              … which is why I was thinking ‘use Ares to fake it until I make it with Evennia’.

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                blu
                last edited by blu 17 Jan 2023, 21:02

                This post once contained evidence that I got lost while walking around the store despite clear signs on each aisle.

                continue without disabling
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                  Roz @blu
                  last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 21:03

                  @blu lol i think you’re in the wrong thread honey

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                    blu @Roz
                    last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 21:06

                    @Roz oh gosh darnit

                    Sobs

                    I’ll move it to the right thread.

                    continue without disabling
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                      Tez Administrators @blu
                      last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 21:08

                      @blu there there

                      Maybe we need to discuss why this thread has been misposted in twice in two hours, by you and me. 🤔 IS THERE A CONSPIRACY AFOOT?

                      she/they

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                        Jennkryst @Tez
                        last edited by 17 Jan 2023, 21:17

                        @Tez said in Prospective Star Wars:

                        @blu there there

                        Maybe we need to discuss why this thread has been misposted in twice in two hours, by you and me. 🤔 IS THERE A CONSPIRACY AFOOT?

                        jedi mind shit

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                          Faraday @Jennkryst
                          last edited by Faraday 17 Jan 2023, 22:33

                          @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

                          The portal and scene async is like. Like… 90% of the reason I want to break Ares apart and figure out how to make it do the rest of what I want, yup.

                          Except those same features are exactly why it’s virtually impossible to do the kind of code you want. 🙂

                          Asynchronous and Web RP is diametrically opposed to immersive client RP.

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                            Tat @Jennkryst
                            last edited by 18 Jan 2023, 01:18

                            @Jennkryst said in Prospective Star Wars:

                            The portal and scene async is like. Like… 90% of the reason I want to break Ares apart and figure out how to make it do the rest of what I want, yup.

                            Honestly, I think that if you’re really serious about this, you need to sit down and write out what you actually need to run this game. Figure out which features are ‘nice to have’ and which features are ‘must have’.

                            Write down how those features will work. Specifically think about the scene system, multi-sceneing, and async when you do this, because it affects a lot. Figure out whether your ‘must haves’ are compatible with this sort of RP.

                            I suspect that doing this will bring you to some choices between two desired things. Making those choices will make it easier to determine a next step.

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                              SpaceKhomeini @Tat
                              last edited by 18 Jan 2023, 17:24

                              @Tat This is like simple but great advice.

                              And I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way either.

                              I woke up feeling so good, I think I’d better call in sick/ I need a personal trainer to help me hold my drink
                              I plan to be spontaneous next time we meet/I’m putting off procrastinating until next week
                              I’ll get onto it when I give a shit

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                                Jennkryst
                                last edited by 28 Jan 2023, 20:40

                                I need a distraction from my code implosion. WHOMST among you is intimately familiar with the FFG Star Wars mechanics? Do you know if any skill, aside from Lightsabers, has a ‘here, you can use a different attribute with this skill instead of the default one’?

                                Not saying that this is the root of my code-learning problems. Because I haven’t gotten that far. But it might make dice code easier when I end up getting there.

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                                  oknow @Jennkryst
                                  last edited by 28 Jan 2023, 21:11

                                  @Jennkryst I don’t know the rules well enough, I’m afraid. If no-one else here knows, someone on the FFG subreddit probably will.

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                                    Istus @Jennkryst
                                    last edited by 29 Jan 2023, 02:06

                                    @Jennkryst There are talents that modify the linked characteristic of a skill.

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                                      Jennkryst @Istus
                                      last edited by 29 Jan 2023, 02:16

                                      @Istus I know there are talents that do this for Lightsaber. Am I forgetting any that work with different skills?

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                                        Istus @Jennkryst
                                        last edited by Istus 29 Jan 2023, 02:32

                                        @Jennkryst Skulduggery can flip around between Agility and Cunning at a minimum. I do not know of others off of the top of my head but that one alone means that there is precedence.

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                                          Jennkryst
                                          last edited by 29 Jan 2023, 02:36

                                          Alrighty, no default attributes at all, all rolls will call for attr+skill.

                                          … somehow.

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